The Product Owner Role Flashcards

Which best describes the Product Owner's relationship to ROI and product value?

Answer: They optimize the value of the work the Scrum Team performs

Maximizing the value delivered by the team's work is the Product Owner's central concern.

During Sprint Planning, what is the Product Owner's key contribution?

Answer: Proposing how the product could increase value and which backlog items support the Sprint

The Product Owner clarifies value and the candidate backlog items; Developers decide how much to take on.

A Product Owner keeps adding items to the current Sprint Backlog without team agreement. This violates which principle?

Answer: The Developers own the Sprint Backlog and forecast

Only the Developers can change the Sprint Backlog; scope changes are negotiated, not imposed.

What is the most effective way for a Product Owner to keep the backlog valuable?

Answer: Continuously refine and reorder it based on learning and feedback

Ongoing refinement and reordering keeps the backlog reflecting current value and knowledge.

At the Sprint Review, the Product Owner primarily:

Answer: Discusses progress toward the Product Goal and collaborates with stakeholders on what to do next

The Sprint Review inspects the Increment and adapts the backlog with stakeholders, led by the Product Owner.

Which statement about the Product Owner saying 'no' is correct?

Answer: Saying no to lower-value requests is essential to maximizing value

Protecting capacity for high-value work requires declining lower-value requests.

How should a Product Owner handle conflicting priorities from two important stakeholders?

Answer: Make a single ordering decision based on overall product value

The Product Owner is the single decision-maker who orders the backlog by value.